Jonathan Lei

Harvard Student, Airline Points Collector, Amateur Investor

Hey, I'm Jonathan! It's great to have you here.

I'm a electrical engineering (or maybe CS) student at Harvard. I'm here to develop the hard skills that I'll need to build really cool products in the future as well as to meet potential future co-founders.

I'm an early team member at TensorDock, a marketplace that provides startups, researchers, and AI labs the industry's most affordable GPU infrastructure. We've built the hardware, we've built the hypervisor, and we've built the load balancers so that customers don't have to. If you strive for perfection, if you thrive under stress, and if you are an innate leader—even if by example—I can make a referral.

I started in software engineering, but after it became clear that there were much better developers than me, I pivoted to finance and strategy. I think my true passion might be technical sales, so I'm now figuring out how to make myself redundant so I can focus on that. The business has grown so much since I started here, and I'm excited to see where it goes next. It's been a huge learning journey.

And, I dabble with angel investing. I've only written a few tiny checks so far, but I'm looking to do more. I look for highly intelligent people regardless of traction, and I invest at the earliest stages. I view investing as a tool for me to meet cool people and to learn about—or perhaps help them with—their challenges. I write personal checks, and I also scout for Contrary. If you have a "billion dollar" idea If you're passionate about a problem and are working on an interesting solution, even if it's not fleshed out, shoot me an email! Would love to chat. I'm sure there's something I can learn from you :)

What's on my mind:

• Helping hire another full-time founding engineer at TensorDock. Someone with intuition, taste, ambition, vision, and skill — not necessarily experience. If that sounds like you, let's chat!
• How to structure teams and build organizational hierarchy that scales long-term
• Figuring out how to run a company house this summer in SF :)
• How to maximize a shit ton of credit card spend :stuck_out_tongue:
• Where to travel next!

That's all for now! Thanks for stopping by!
- Jonathan